1. You will finally have an occasion to wear the floral print shirt you got for Christmas years ago.
2. When is the next time you will be able to ride a wave in the dead of winter?
3. Be served breakfast at the Cooperstown Lions Island Pancake Breakfast Saturday and Sunday.
4. Support local businesses who have donated generously to make winter a little more fun.
5. Make some memories with your kids as you help them make a snow-surfer on the Village Library lawn.
6. Practice your hula
dancing during the Rip Tide Carnival Cooler.
7. Start your weekend off right by enjoying the
Carnival Fireworks Display over Otsego Lake.
8. Even your dog can get out and socialize with his puppy friends at the SPCA Dog Show.
9. Tire your kids out by letting them jump around in the Inflatable Bouncy House on Saturday.
10. That way you can stay out later at the Hang Ten Hangout and enjoy great bands at the local area bars.
11. Have you ever been to a Pig Roast in the middle of February?
12. Don’t feel guilty about indulging in all the samples during the Dessert Festival – we need judges for the fan favorite prize!
13. Run off the extra
calories on Sunday at the Bob Smullens 5k and 10k Run.
14. Channel Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation during The Sled Stampede races.
15. Show everyone that you are the best hula hooper in town at the Hula Hoop Contest.
16. The chance to check out the bamboo ice sculptures in Pioneer Park.
17. You heard correctly, the lip-sync contest is BACK!
18. Make sure you get enough fruits and veggies in your diet at the Waikiki Watermelon-eating contest.
19. Test your bartending skills at the DUVEL
Pouring Contest at the Pit.
20. Sample a number of different wines and find your favorite at the Paper Umbrella Wine Tasting on Saturday.
21. You could be one of the lucky people to win a raffle prize announced at the Last Stand Chili Contest and Carnival Closer.
22. Join your neighbors on Main St. for the Tropical Paradise Parade or enter to win cash prizes!
23. See if your kids
inherited your moves at the Children’s Disco held at the Cooperstown Fire Hall.
24. Trade your flip-flops for bowling shoes at the
Bowling Tournament held at the Clark Sports Center.
25. If you get cold, warm up at Doubleday Field and enjoy hot food and
beverages at the Beachfront Warming Tent, served by the CCS Softball Team.
26. Check out “Muppet Treasure Island” at Movie Float Night at the Clark Sports Center pool.
27. Enter your chili in the Aloha Means Goodbye Chili Contest and Carnival Closer and see if you can
bring the title of “best chili” home!
28. Get free entry to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum all weekend by wearing a 2011 Winter Carnival button.
29. Try luau-themed drinks made by competing bars and good music at the Rip Tide Carnival Cooler and Drink Contest.
30. Win the Cross Country Ski Race on Saturday
afternoon beginning at the Clark Sports Center.
31. See which Cooperstown high schoolers are named to the Carnival Court during Saturday’s Pancake
Breakfast.
32. Listen to some
talented youngsters take part in Kid’s Karaoke at the Masonic Lodge Building on Sunday.
33. Win a prize for your art by entering the Surf, Sun and Sand Snow Sculpting Contest on Saturday
morning.
34. Show everyone what that you’ve got what it takes at the Cooperstown’s Got Talent show.
35. Stop by the Winter
Carnival Farmer’s
Market in Pioneer Alley on Saturday morning and the TREP$ Marketplace in the Cooperstown Middle/High School Gymnasium on
Saturday afternoon.
36. Wear grass skirts and say things like ALOHA and not get funny looks from your neighbors.
37. Catch “Lilo & Stitch” during the Cabin Fever Film Series on Friday
evening at the Hall of Fame.
38. Learn about the hauntings of Cooperstown by taking a Candlelight Ghost Tour during the weekend.
39. Warm up with the
Soup ‘r Chili Luncheon at the First Baptist Church.
40. Back, back, back, GONE. Participate in the Homerun Hitting Showdown in Lakefront Park.
41. Test your shot in the HOOPLA Free Throw and Three Point Contest at the Clark Sports Center.
42. Dig in during the
Volcanic Blast Chicken Wing Contest.
43. Enjoy a Spaghetti
Dinner to benefit the Susquehanna SPCA On Saturday evening from 5-8 at Templeton Hall.
44. Try some great
Cheesecake at the 12th annual Cheesecake Tasting at the Cooperstown United Methodist Church.
45. Be apart of a 45-year tradition of the best
community in America.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
National Martyr NEARLY NATIVE SON
20th U.S. President From Sturdy Stock: Worcester Pioneers
By JIM KEVLIN : WORCESTER
Before the American Revolution, this was Indian country.
During the Revolution, the mighty Iroquois picked the wrong side, allying with the British in ravaging the Mohawk Valley, including the raid into Cherry Valley.
Indirectly, that led to one of Otsego County’s more direct connections to the American presidency: James A. Garfield’s family ties to Worcester.
The Cherry Valley massacre provoked Washington to send out the Clinton-Sullivan Expedition, commemorated annually in the General Clinton Canoe Regatta down the Susquehanna to Bainbridge. Bainbridge is near the former Oqaga, the Iroquois stronghold the Expedition razed.
The long and short of it, when the Revolution ended, the upper Susquehanna Valley was pacified, and young men from crowded New England – many of them with land grants in appreciation of their service in the Continental Army – flooded here.
One of them, Solomon Garfield, moved in 1790 from Spencer, a hamlet in Worcester, Mass., to Cherry Valley. In 1797, the new Town of Worcester, N.Y., broke away from C-V – Town Historian Marilyn Dufresne is unsure if there was an explicit connection. (In 1808, the towns of Decatur, Maryland and Westford broke away, leaving Worcester as we know it today.)
Solomon built a log cabin on a hilltop just beyond the east end of the village and farmed there. The house that now stands behind the State Historic Marker was built decades after the original cabin burned, although it is on Garfield land.
Although he survived the Revolution, Solomon’s end – a tree fell on him when son, Thomas, was just 7 – was the first of a string of untimely deaths of Garfield men, according to Mrs. Dufresne.
Thomas would die of smallpox in 1801, age 28. His son Abram “singed his lungs” when his crops caught fire, dying in 1833, age 34.
Abrams’ son James became the second president to be assassinated: by Charles Guiteau, a disappointed officer seeker, on July 2, 1881, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Passenger Terminal in Washington D.C. He died on Sept. 19, 1881, in Long Branch, N.J., where he’d been sent to recuperate.
The gunshot didn’t kill him, but sepsis, the result of attending physician Dr. Willard Bliss’ ignorance – hence, “ignorance is Bliss” – of Dr. Joseph Lister’s new understanding of the importance of maintaining cleanliness. (Guiteau was hanged nonetheless).
As you can imagine, Worcester had heralded the elevation of its not-quite-native son. There was some talk locally that Garfield was, in fact, en route to visit his ancestors’ hometown when he was shot.
Through Garfield, Worcester has linkages to other history happenings.
Abram Garfield, Solomon’s brother – James’ middle name is Abram – fought in the Battle of Lexington & Concord, and signed an affidavit averring the militias were peaceable and fired upon without provocation by the Redcoats.
Also, the president’s mother, Eliza Ballou, was the daughter of Hosea Ballou, a founder of Universalism in the U.S. (Her uncle was a Colonel Seward of Decatur.)
Mrs. Dufresne said the president’s dad, Thomas, fell in love with Eliza when she was a girl and he a boy and the Ballous lived in Westford a while en route to Ohio. When Thomas grew up he headed west, young man, to Ohio, where he found his first love.
Stories exist of the sturdy Garfields, foremost one regarding Thomas, when a 500-pound grindstone was brought from Albany to a local tavern.
“While help was being obtained to unload it Garfield, who was present, remarked that he could unload it alone and carry it on his back to Tusculum (in the neighborhood of the Garfield cabin).
“The replay was made that upon doing so the stone should be his,” according to a reminiscence of a Rufus Storrs. “Whereupon Thomas selected a stick and fitted it to the eye of the stone, placed it on his back and carried it to Tusculum, with but one rest on the way.”
The Ohio Thomas found must have been similar to what Solomon had found in Otsego County: “still covered with dense forests, and the Garfields were obliged to clear the land for their farming. They built a cabin” – similar, no doubt, to what Solomon built here – 20 feet by 30, and in this cabin James Abram Garfield was born on the 19th of November, 1831,” according to the “History of the Attempted Assassination of James A. Garfield,” by John Stuart Ogilvie. (It was published in 1881, between the time of the shooting and the 20th president’s death.)
The Worcester Garfields were buried in the village’s first burial ground in the community center, but they didn’t rest in peace. In 1903, the cemetery was dug up to make way for a bank, according to a clipping Mrs. Dufresne supplied from the New York World.
“No special effort has been made to find the remains of the grandparents of the late president, the reason given that no one was quite sure in just what place in the quarter-acre graveyard the graves were,” the newspaper reported.
“While the excavations were being made, many bones were discovered, and rotten pieces of wood were found which had been used as grave-markers near the spot where, tradition says, the bodies of the Garfields lay.”
What bones were recovered were placed in a lot behind First Presbyterian Church on Main Street, and later moved again to Maple Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Dufresne is on the cemetery board and knows the property well, but has never found any stone marked with the Garfield name.
The one Garfield in the Worcester phone book, Dr. Robert, is no relation, a receptionist at his office said. Queals are likewise no longer in this parts, but there are numerous Frenches and Ingallses in the county, some of which may be related to the president by married.
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| James A. Garfield’s official White House portrait was painted by Calvin Curtis (1822-93), a noted artist who painted many eminent Americans of this day. |
By JIM KEVLIN : WORCESTER
Before the American Revolution, this was Indian country.
During the Revolution, the mighty Iroquois picked the wrong side, allying with the British in ravaging the Mohawk Valley, including the raid into Cherry Valley.
Indirectly, that led to one of Otsego County’s more direct connections to the American presidency: James A. Garfield’s family ties to Worcester.
The Cherry Valley massacre provoked Washington to send out the Clinton-Sullivan Expedition, commemorated annually in the General Clinton Canoe Regatta down the Susquehanna to Bainbridge. Bainbridge is near the former Oqaga, the Iroquois stronghold the Expedition razed.
The long and short of it, when the Revolution ended, the upper Susquehanna Valley was pacified, and young men from crowded New England – many of them with land grants in appreciation of their service in the Continental Army – flooded here.
One of them, Solomon Garfield, moved in 1790 from Spencer, a hamlet in Worcester, Mass., to Cherry Valley. In 1797, the new Town of Worcester, N.Y., broke away from C-V – Town Historian Marilyn Dufresne is unsure if there was an explicit connection. (In 1808, the towns of Decatur, Maryland and Westford broke away, leaving Worcester as we know it today.)
Solomon built a log cabin on a hilltop just beyond the east end of the village and farmed there. The house that now stands behind the State Historic Marker was built decades after the original cabin burned, although it is on Garfield land.
Although he survived the Revolution, Solomon’s end – a tree fell on him when son, Thomas, was just 7 – was the first of a string of untimely deaths of Garfield men, according to Mrs. Dufresne.
Thomas would die of smallpox in 1801, age 28. His son Abram “singed his lungs” when his crops caught fire, dying in 1833, age 34.
Abrams’ son James became the second president to be assassinated: by Charles Guiteau, a disappointed officer seeker, on July 2, 1881, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Passenger Terminal in Washington D.C. He died on Sept. 19, 1881, in Long Branch, N.J., where he’d been sent to recuperate.
The gunshot didn’t kill him, but sepsis, the result of attending physician Dr. Willard Bliss’ ignorance – hence, “ignorance is Bliss” – of Dr. Joseph Lister’s new understanding of the importance of maintaining cleanliness. (Guiteau was hanged nonetheless).
As you can imagine, Worcester had heralded the elevation of its not-quite-native son. There was some talk locally that Garfield was, in fact, en route to visit his ancestors’ hometown when he was shot.
Through Garfield, Worcester has linkages to other history happenings.
Abram Garfield, Solomon’s brother – James’ middle name is Abram – fought in the Battle of Lexington & Concord, and signed an affidavit averring the militias were peaceable and fired upon without provocation by the Redcoats.
Also, the president’s mother, Eliza Ballou, was the daughter of Hosea Ballou, a founder of Universalism in the U.S. (Her uncle was a Colonel Seward of Decatur.)
Mrs. Dufresne said the president’s dad, Thomas, fell in love with Eliza when she was a girl and he a boy and the Ballous lived in Westford a while en route to Ohio. When Thomas grew up he headed west, young man, to Ohio, where he found his first love.
Stories exist of the sturdy Garfields, foremost one regarding Thomas, when a 500-pound grindstone was brought from Albany to a local tavern.
“While help was being obtained to unload it Garfield, who was present, remarked that he could unload it alone and carry it on his back to Tusculum (in the neighborhood of the Garfield cabin).
“The replay was made that upon doing so the stone should be his,” according to a reminiscence of a Rufus Storrs. “Whereupon Thomas selected a stick and fitted it to the eye of the stone, placed it on his back and carried it to Tusculum, with but one rest on the way.”
The Ohio Thomas found must have been similar to what Solomon had found in Otsego County: “still covered with dense forests, and the Garfields were obliged to clear the land for their farming. They built a cabin” – similar, no doubt, to what Solomon built here – 20 feet by 30, and in this cabin James Abram Garfield was born on the 19th of November, 1831,” according to the “History of the Attempted Assassination of James A. Garfield,” by John Stuart Ogilvie. (It was published in 1881, between the time of the shooting and the 20th president’s death.)
The Worcester Garfields were buried in the village’s first burial ground in the community center, but they didn’t rest in peace. In 1903, the cemetery was dug up to make way for a bank, according to a clipping Mrs. Dufresne supplied from the New York World.
“No special effort has been made to find the remains of the grandparents of the late president, the reason given that no one was quite sure in just what place in the quarter-acre graveyard the graves were,” the newspaper reported.
“While the excavations were being made, many bones were discovered, and rotten pieces of wood were found which had been used as grave-markers near the spot where, tradition says, the bodies of the Garfields lay.”
What bones were recovered were placed in a lot behind First Presbyterian Church on Main Street, and later moved again to Maple Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Dufresne is on the cemetery board and knows the property well, but has never found any stone marked with the Garfield name.
The one Garfield in the Worcester phone book, Dr. Robert, is no relation, a receptionist at his office said. Queals are likewise no longer in this parts, but there are numerous Frenches and Ingallses in the county, some of which may be related to the president by married.
PRESIDENTS & Otsego County
AFTER THE WAR: During his retirement tour of Revolutionary War battlefield, George Washington visited the scene of the Cherry Valley Massacre on July 31, 1783, and the next day stopped at Cooperstown, where General Clinton had dammed the Susquehanna en route to razing Oqaga.
LITTLE VAN, LOST: In 1839, while he was the eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren attended a party at Samuel W. Beall’s Woodside Hall, the Greek Revival mansion at the top of Main Street, Cooperstown. He wandered into the garden, got lost and it took an hour to locate him.
AT THE FAIR: In 1885, his last year in office, 21st President Chester Allen Arthur, a former New York governor, attended the Central New York Fair in Oneonta’s Belmont Circle neighborhood.
SHAKING HANDS: The year before, in September 1884, Gov. Grover Cleveland – later the 22nd and 24th president – got off the train en route from Elmira to Albany and shook hands with folks at the station at the bottom of the former Broad Street for 15 minutes.
DOUBLE WHAMMY: At different times, both Theodore Roosevelt (26th president) and William Howard Taft (27th) stayed the night at Congressman George Fairchild’s Oneonta home, now the Masonic Temple at Main and Grand. In 1900, Fairchild had founded International Time Recording Co., the future IBM.
GOVERNOR VISITS: As governor, FDR spent a night at The O-Te-Sa-Ga in August 1930, then spoke to “an enthusiastic crowd” the next morning in front of the Hotel Oneonta.
Graveyard Intrigues The World
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from a 1903 article in the New York Post describing the controversy over the Garfields remains.
After a bitter clash between sentiment and commercialism in the Village of Worcester, a bank there has secured the right from the town to build a new banking-house upon the site of the graves of the grandparents and great-grandparents of President Garfield. The excavations have been made and the masonry is in course of construction.
No special effort has been made to find the remains of the grandparents of the late president; the reason given being that no one was quite sure in just what place in the quarter-acre graveyard the graves were.
...The graveyard, located in the heart of Worcester, was many years ago abandoned as a burying ground, and it had become overgrown with weeds. The boys used the few remaining headstones as bases in their ball games.
... James Nelson, a resident of Worcester, has in his possession a letter from President Garfield written shortly before his assassination, wherein he expresses a hope to be able to soon visit Worcester and attend to the last resting places of his ancestors. One of the places which he was intending to visit on the trip he was about to take was Worcester.
No need was paid to protests of the minority of the citizens that a preservation of the burial plot in some suitable way would be creditable to the town.
After a bitter clash between sentiment and commercialism in the Village of Worcester, a bank there has secured the right from the town to build a new banking-house upon the site of the graves of the grandparents and great-grandparents of President Garfield. The excavations have been made and the masonry is in course of construction.
No special effort has been made to find the remains of the grandparents of the late president; the reason given being that no one was quite sure in just what place in the quarter-acre graveyard the graves were.
...The graveyard, located in the heart of Worcester, was many years ago abandoned as a burying ground, and it had become overgrown with weeds. The boys used the few remaining headstones as bases in their ball games.
... James Nelson, a resident of Worcester, has in his possession a letter from President Garfield written shortly before his assassination, wherein he expresses a hope to be able to soon visit Worcester and attend to the last resting places of his ancestors. One of the places which he was intending to visit on the trip he was about to take was Worcester.
No need was paid to protests of the minority of the citizens that a preservation of the burial plot in some suitable way would be creditable to the town.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
St. Mary Lives In Generations Of Students’ Memories
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| Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com Frank Signor, Class of 1939 at St. Mary’s School, is second from the right in the back row of the black-and-white photo. His daughters, Kittie Townsend, in foreground, and Joanne Braman, upper left, also graduated from St. Mary’s. Mrs. Townsend now teaches there, and her son, Scott, now 29, at right, and daughter, Rebecca, 26, third from left in second row of photo at left, also graduated from the Oneonta parochial school. It’s typical of St. Mary’s multi-generational reach. |
By JIM KEVLIN : ONEONTA
It’s rare these days – ever, really – to hear parents talk about a school in such glowing terms.
“As soon as you walk through the door, you get a feeling of peace, camaraderie. There’s goodness there,” said John Kennedy, one of 11 siblings who graduated from St. Mary’s School. “And when the kids come home, they bring it with them.”
His son Johnny, 6, is in first grade, and Maura, 4, Carly, 2, and Stephen, 5 months, will follow in the footsteps of their older brother.
At St. Mary’s, “peer pressure is the pressure to be good, to learn, to want to be part of something that’s bigger than themselves,” said Kennedy, a five-year employee of Covidien in Hobart.
The other evening at Southside Mall, where St. Mary’s parents were sharing their experiences with the parents of prospective students, Dawn Schuman, declared, “St. Mary’s is not just a school, it is a joy. My kids run into school; they cry when there’s a snow day.”
Kitty Townsend, a St. Mary’s graduate who teaches there today – her dad, Frank Signor, graduated in 1939; her children, Scott and Rebecca, in the 1990s – can’t imagine school without Christmas.
Her fourth-graders make a Jesse Tree, which traces the Prophets’ revelations from creation to Jesus,
Please See and an Advent Calendar, which charts the days to the Nativity.
St. Mary’s School is no stranger to an uncertain future. Thumbing through the school archives the other day, there was a headline from 1969: “St. Mary’s To Remain Open.” The story quoted Father John Caldara, then-pastor of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, as saying “for the time being” the school was safe.
“The time being” turned out to be 42 years – two generations – during which the school left its 1924 building at Elm and Walnut for a campus on Oneonta’s east end.
In 1969, the school had 200 students. Today, it has 50, Grades 1-6, and given Diocese of Albany guidelines that a healthy school should have 12 students per grade, questions have been raised anew about St. Mary’s future.
The questions, however, have brought forth an outpouring of affection. Parents rallied Wednesday, Jan. 26, saying they would raise $40,000 to keep the school open.
As it turns out, money alone is not a factor, according to Principal Patricia Bliss, who said the school is sufficiently endowed to cover whatever amount of tuition that, subject to need, is necessary to bring enrollment up to the desired 70.
More of a challenge is the relatively good quality of local public schools, and distance – public schools are only required to bus students in from a 15-mile radius, she said.
“We need children,” said Bliss, a Cooperstown native who moved back to the principalship after two decades teaching at Catholic schools in New Jersey. “Then we can work on the other things.”
The economy’s a factor, too: Since the Great Recession arrived, students from Sidney and other towns at the outer end of St. Mary’s service limit have dropped away.
Generally, there are fewer school-age children; Andes, it turns out, has only one kindergartner this year. And the demographics have changed. Kitty Townsend remembers her generation of Pondolfinos: 13 children.
Still, Bliss said, St. Mary’s pupils are taught a state-approved curriculum and are at the top end of state tests. Students don’t have to be Catholic, but of those who are, “The values the parents are teaching at home – faith-based values – are being taught in school: respect, caring, love of God, love of one another.”
St. Mary’s was built at the end of the wave of Catholic school construction.
The first Catholic school was also a St. Mary’s, opened in Philadelphia in 1782. The Bill of Rights, guaranteeing freedom of religion, resulted in the spread of parochial schools, as did the flood of Catholic immigrants that followed Ireland’s Great Famine, beginning in 1845.
The Sisters of Mercy – they would teach in Oneonta decades later – arrived from Ireland in 1843.
Parochial schools were intended to preserve the Old Country religion, but also as a bulwark against the anti-immigrant sentiment of the Know-Nothing Party and, later, the Ku Klux Klan. (As it happens, the Aug. 16, 1923, headline in the Oneonta Herald, “New Parochial School,” was juxtaposed with another, “Purposes of the Klan,” reporting “the largest throng ever wedged into the Knights of Pythias hall on Main Street” to hear the Rev. N.V. Cossaboom promote that secret society.)
By 2000 – the National Catholic Education Association formed that year – there were 3,500 Catholic schools in the U.S. Twenty years later, just before St. Mary’s rose, there were 6,500 with 1.75 million students. Enrollment peaked at 4.5 million in the 1960s.
Whatever happens to St. Mary’s, there exists a living legacy of discipline, caring and education in Otsego and Delaware counties, judging from interview with students past and parents present in recent days.
“The curriculum standards were very high,” recalled Alex Shields, Class of 1956, the former county representative from Richfield Springs who was raised “under the viaduct” in the City of the Hills. “We had very bright kids.”
His dad Andrew worked in the feed mill on Market Street and mom Ina was a waitress, so there was little money to spare for the shirts, ties and slacks he and two of his three brothers needed to attend St. Mary’s – the girls wore green jumpers and white blouses – but his parents were committed to getting them a parochial education.
St. Mary’s wasn’t fancy. The playground was narrow and asphalt-covered. The kids exercised by their desks. And they brought bagged lunches. Treats were rare – Alex remembers the thrill at seeing “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” starring Ingrid Bergman and Bing Crosby, in the auditorium.
All the alums talk about a system of rewards based on service. One prized task for Shields was to distribute milk to the other classrooms; another, to clean the blackboards. Kitty Townsend remembers the honor of being chosen to take a note across the street to the convent.
“It was a job, but it was a privilege,” Alex remembered.
Both Shields and Signor yearned to be altar boys, and studied the Latin necessary to do the task. Every Christmas, the choir boys and altar boys were given an apple and an orange after mass. “We thought we were big deals,” Signor said.
No one remembers any trouble adjusting to the academic demands of Oneonta High School, even in the days of the formidable principal, Charles Belden – yes, he would start each assembly with a Bible verse – and his deputy, Clifford McVinney.
And the teachers ... oh, my.
Sister Mary LaSalle, Alex’s principal, Sister Mary Raymond, Sister Robert Ann, Sister Francis, Mother Veronica, assigned to St. Mary’s after 15 years directing the order’s Mother House in Albany, took a particular interest in young Alex.
“She was very, very smart: and very, very strong-willed,” he said. “I was extremely rebellious. But she saw something in me that had some potential.”
She encouraged him to take college prep courses, but family members urged him to learn a trade. It was only many years later that Shields obtained his bachelor’s from SUNY Oneonta, going on to a career in government and, later, elective office.
Curiously, John Kennedy tells a similar story from decades later, of Mrs. Nancy Weils, his math and social studies teacher.
“She expected from you what she knew your potential was,” he said, as baby Stephen bounced on mom Christy’s knee and Johnny assembled a circuit board he intended to use to build an FM speaker. Maura and Carly squealed with delight at a favorite movie on TV in the next room.
“I learned things and I did things in that class that I never thought I would accomplish.”
Films About Books Topic Of Free Class At Smithy Pioneer Gallery
COOPERSTOWN
‘Books We Love to Watch,” a film class taught by Smithy Executive Director Danielle Newell (BFA in Cinema, NYU) will meet 6-8:30 p.m. on the first and third Saturday of every month, beginning in Feb. 5.
The course will focus on classic and contemporary films based on novels, and discussion will revolve around both book, film and the interplay between the two.
The first class is being offered free to the public, space is limited and registration is required. Call 547-8671 or email smithypioneer@gmail.com.
‘Books We Love to Watch,” a film class taught by Smithy Executive Director Danielle Newell (BFA in Cinema, NYU) will meet 6-8:30 p.m. on the first and third Saturday of every month, beginning in Feb. 5.
The course will focus on classic and contemporary films based on novels, and discussion will revolve around both book, film and the interplay between the two.
The first class is being offered free to the public, space is limited and registration is required. Call 547-8671 or email smithypioneer@gmail.com.
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